Ruth Negga Quotes

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

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• You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Country
  • Society
  • Violence

• Behold the hippopotamus!We laugh at how he looks to us,And yet in moments dank and grim,I wonder how we look to him.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Moments
  • Wonder

• And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • God

• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • River

• I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Black

• I've been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just have to keep on the right path and not jaunt off to the left or the right.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Path

• Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Important
  • Reading

• The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • People
  • Life
  • Christian

• The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.

  

  Don Rose
  • People
  • Fire

• I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

  

  Christoffel Wiese
  • People
  • Today
  • Amazing

• There's a lot that goes into being Tim McGraw or Kenny Chesney. They have great songs, their show is great, they're very fit. When you look at somebody who takes care of themselves, takes care of their business, that's what every CEO would do.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Guy

• There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Good
  • Support

• I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

  

  Anthony Holden

• Building strength is very important, but there are many ways to do that.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Important

• I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

  

  Lauren Socha
  • Serious
  • Cheesy

• My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

  

  Micky Dolenz The Monkees
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Actor

• My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are much more interested in Cartesian logic: in finding your way through more cerebral puzzle-making, if you wish.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Success
  • Wish
  • English

• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  

  John Milton
  • Hell
  • Serve
  • Reign

• I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kids

• I see myself like what Drake did in the game. I came with melodies and different lyrics, from a different place - reggaeton is from Puerto Rico; Drake is from Canada.

  

  J Balvin
  • Different
  • Game
  • Lyrics

• I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

  

  Ruth Negga